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Greg's first love was journalism, which he practiced as a writer for the Voice of America and a reporter for the Yale Daily News. But early on, he says, "I decided that I was much better with numbers than with words." A lightning number cruncher with a stern eye for fat in a budget, he honed his concentration and competitive skills as a 145-lb. wrestler at Phillips Academy. "It sure taught me to be tenacious," he says. Greg also discovered a passion for politics, working after college as a legislative assistant for Jonathan Bingham, a Democratic Congressman from...
This was the year it became clear that supercomputers of the future will have not one or two or even dozens but thousands of processors working in concert. One company, Thinking Machines of Cambridge, Mass., introduced a gymnasium- size number cruncher that can perform up to 2 trillion operations a second. Now the firm just needs to find customers willing to fork over $200 million...
Digital Equipment Corp. used to be the computer industry's most invincible number cruncher. For nearly three decades, the Massachusetts-based manufacturer enjoyed uninterrupted growth as its potent line of VAX midrange computers muscled sales away from IBM by offering comparable computing power at cut-rate prices. But DEC has proved to be vulnerable after all. Caught in an industry-wide slowdown, the company will pare its work force by 9,000, or about 7%, by year's end. Last week DEC posted a quarterly loss of $257 million, the first red ink in its 32-year history...
...such a scrupulous numbers cruncher end up having to impose $115 million in new taxes? Federal tax reform. To take advantage of the favorable capital-gains measures in the old law, taxpayers unloaded huge quantities of stocks and property in 1986. That boom in financial transactions gave Massachusetts a $140 million budget surplus in 1987. The bill came due this spring, when tax revenue from the windfall dried up and the state found itself in the red. Similar scenarios have unfolded in New York and California, where fellow Democrat Mario Cuomo and Republican George Deukmejian each face deficits...
...solid defense will be anchored by sophomore Chris Norton, chosen by the Winnipeg Jets in the most recent draft, and Tri-Captain Mike Schafer, a four-year starter who will be the team's cruncher at the blue line...